Atalanta and Roma are going to face on Saturday the 18th of December at 3:00 pm in the 18th week of the Serie A. The match is going to be staged in Bergamo at the Gewiss Stadium.
Atalanta sits in the 3rd place in the league with 37 points. It comes from a 1-2 win against Hellas Verona in its last match in the Serie A. As of now, it has won 11 times, draw 4 times, and lost twice.
Atalanta won the last 6 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 3rd of October against Milan and the score was 2-3.
Roma sits in the 6th position in the table with 28 points. It comes from a 2-0 win against Spezia in its last match in the Serie A. So far, it has won 9 times, drawn once, and lost 7 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Atalanta
Atalanta has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (9 times or 52.94%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (9 times), 3-4-3 (4 times) and 3-4-1-2 (4 times).
Gian Piero Gasperini is expected to play against Roma with the following players: J. Musso, M. Demiral, J. Palomino, R. Tolói, J. Mæhle, H. Hateboer, R. Freuler, M. de Roon, R. Malinovskiy, M. Pašalić and D. Zapata Banguera.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Atalanta would be 27.82.
R. Gosens will definitely miss the match.
Roma
Roma has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 64.71%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (11 times), 3-1-4-2 (4 times), 3-5-2 (once) and 3-4-1-2 (once).
José Mario Felix dos Santos Mourinho is expected to play against Atalanta with the following players: R. dos Santos Patrício, G. Mancini, R. Ibañez da Silva, M. Kumbulla, M. Viña Susperreguy, H. Mkhitaryan, B. Cristante, J. Veretout, R. Karsdorp and K. Bakumo-Abraham.
Granting that the above line up is confirmed, the average age of Roma would be 26.20.
There are doubts about the presence of N. Zaniolo.
José Mario Felix dos Santos Mourinho will probably not be able to employ C. Smalling because of injury.
L. Spinazzola, S. El Shaarawy, L. Pellegrini and C. Pérez Sayol will definitely miss the match.
José Mario Felix dos Santos Mourinho will not be able to have the presence of F. Afena-Gyan who is suspended.